Selenium - Update to WebDriver

Question

I am using "selenium-server-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar" jar file to run my test suite in selenium test runner. It runs well in firefox & chrome, but it gives this info text in the test run report

"info: Selenium 1.0 (Core, RC, etc) is no longer under active development. Please update to WebDriver ASAP"

How do i update to webdriver manually? or How can i get rid of this info text?

Answer 1

The info message you are seeing is essentially warning you that if you continue to use the Selenium RC API, your tests can stop working with more recent releases of browsers. In the upcoming Selenium 3, the RC API will be dropped outright.

There is no way to just get rid of the text, it is a warning message, and it is a valuable warning message.

In order to move on to WebDriver you will need to rewrite all your tests. A suggestion is to start with failing ones first. Start by reading through the official documentation. There is also a link from there pointing you towards more specifics. While you are at it, you might also want to consider refactoring your code to use PageObjects, which was not available in Selenium 1.

Note that while you are migrating your tests, it is quite possible to run a mix of WebDriver and RC tests in the same project.

Answer 2

Point is WebDriver is half finished kind of thing and people not that deeply testing websites, it was useful to have IDE and automate quickly, so this selenium 1.0 works much better and should not be disabled at any point.